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DDoS season
We are, it seems, in the midst of a wave of distributed denial of service attacks. The victims include: Neustar’s UltraDNS. (Problems with specific regional DNS clusters, with little customer-visible...
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Link round-up
Recent links of interest… I’ve heard that no less than four memcached start-ups have been recently funded. GigaOM speculates interestingly on whether memcached is good or bad for MySQL. It seems to me...
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Credit cards and EA/Mythic’s epic billing mistake
Most of us have long since overcome our fear of handing over our credit cards to Internet merchants. It’s become routine for most of us to simply do so. We buy stuff, we sign up for subscriptions, it’s...
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The cloud is not magic
Just because it’s in the cloud doesn’t make it magic. And it can be very, very dangerous to assume that it is. I recently talked to an enterprise client who has a group of developers who decided to go...
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Amazon, ISO 27001, and some conference observations
Greetings from Gartner’s Application Architecture, Development, and Integration Summit. There are around 900 people here, and the audience is heavy on enterprise architects and other application...
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Amazon, ISO 27001, and a correction
FlyingPenguin has posted a good critique of my earlier post about Amazon’s ISO 27001 certification. Here’s a succinct correction: To quote Wikipedia, ISO 27001 requires that management: Systematically...
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There’s no such thing as a “safe” public cloud IaaS
I’ve been trialing cloud IaaS providers lately, and the frustration of getting through many of the sign-up processes has reminded me of some recurring conversations that I’ve had with service providers...
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Private clouds aren’t necessarily more secure
Eric Domage, an analyst over at IDC, is being quoted as saying, “The decision in the next year or two will only be about the private cloud. The bigger the company, the more they will consider the...
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Yet more reasons to work at Gartner with me
The TL;DR: My team at Gartner has an open position for someone who has a strong understanding of cloud IaaS — someone who has experience architecting for the cloud, or who has worked on the vendor side...
View ArticleDon’t be surprised when “move fast and break things” results in broken stuff
Of late, I’ve been talking to a lot of organizations that have learned cloud lessons the hard way — and even more organizations who are newer cloud adopters who seem absolutely determined to make the...
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